Thanks for the info. By saying that one can access these programs do you
mean access them with voice over and have it work or just access them in the
sense that you can bring them up and open them.
Check out my blog at http://lsw999.blogspot.com/
Larry Wanger
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Not at all a dumb question. Terminal is a program that gives you command
line access to the OS through a unix shell. As some folks have
discussed earlier, through this command line shell, you can access all
of the OS Windows apps like TextEdit, Mail, and Spot Light.
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Hi,
Can someone clarify what terminal is for me? I know, probably a dumb
question.
By the way, my Mac arrives tomorrow!!!!!
Check out my blog at http://lsw999.blogspot.com/
Larry Wanger
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Subject: dot files and TextEdit from terminal [was Re: dot files and the
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David,
You can access TextEdit (and other Mac applications) directly from
terminal
with the "open -a" command syntax. For the case you describe of
wanting
to
edit a dot file (such as .profile) that is normally hidden, type:
open -a TextEdit .profile
and the file will open in TextEdit.
On Saturday, December 10, 2005, at 03:33AM, David Poehlman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When I open my home folder through the gui, , the . (dot) files are
not visible. I can view them in windows and through terminal . . .
I've got a .profile that's dot fprofile in my
home folder and I can see it from my windows box but not when I open
my home folder /users/davidpoehlman on my desktop.
This [accessing dot files through gui]
would be quite facilitative as I could use text edit to do
editing when necessary instead of going into terminal, renaming the
file and then editing it and renaming it or going through the network
on the windows boxes.
This also works for other apps (e.g. open -a Preview, etc.)
You should also be able to drag and drop the file from your terminal
window into TextEdit (under Tiger) in the dock and have the
application
open up according to this MacWorld article:
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2005/11/textdrag/index.php
Hope this helps.
Esther
